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Greenwood, Minnesota

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1997. It stands in Greenwood City. It lies in ZIP code area 55331. It lies near Gale Island. The Survey maps it on the Excelsior quadrangle. 726 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Greenwood within Hennepin County

Population over time

3 figures

Greenwood grew from 520 to 726 between 1960 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1960520
2010688
2020726+38 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

451 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Greenwood City. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Greenwood City - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Greenwood in 2004, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMinnesota Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hennepin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwood in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2012LightningGreenwood$100,000Local authorities indicated that lightning struck a home in Rogers, Minnesota, early Thursday morning, May 3rd. The lightning started a fire that caused extensive damage to the roof and lesser damage to the second floor of the home.
August 2020HailGreenwood$50,000This is a continuation line of severe hail, up to golf ball size, that moved out of Wright County near Hanover, eastward to between Roger and Corcoran. Residents and spotters just southeast of Hanover reported the hail was up to golf ball size.
July 2024HailGreenwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hennepin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Excelsior1.1 miles20
Deephaven1.9 miles20
Minnetonka Beach2.1 miles20
Shorewood2.1 miles20
Tonka Bay2.2 miles20
Crescent Beach2.4 miles20
Minnetonka2.7 miles20
Eureka2.9 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on GreenwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1923436The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 644453. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.